Newbie Help With Fedora 9 installation

[E.H]

alright.am gonna try downloading a live CD....

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:52 PM, E. H <expendablehumanoid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Problem still exists...
> This time i even downloaded it onto an NTFS drive and burned it...thats the
> 3rd DVD.
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> I have Fedora 7 installed....is that a problem??
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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:45 AM, E. H <expendablehumanoid at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Thanks Kam Leo,
>>
>> I have already downloaded the DVD ISO again and verified the file with the
>> SHA1 checksum calculator mentioned in the Read ME file.
>>
>> The CheckSum matches...But had to go leave for work..
>>
>> once i get back...let me see how the installation goes.
>>
>> Thanks for the links.
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>> @ Armin,
>>
>>            Thanks...that is almost the same procedure i followed when i
>> did the Fedora 7 installation. I wanted to upgrade it to fedora 9. This is
>> the first time i am facing problems with installing fedora.
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>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Armin Moradi <feng.shaun at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM, E.H <expendablehumanoid at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for replying Aldo and Armin.
>>>>
>>>> Yes i am downloading from a windows system. I was downloading to a
>>>> logical drive with a FAT32 file system... I went through the documentation
>>>> again.. So i guess that must be the problem.
>>>> Apparently downloading to an NTFS filesystem doesn't seem to have that
>>>> problem.
>>>> Will try that.
>>>>
>>>>  I just need a back up copy of the entire dvd anyway.
>>>>  so i would have to download the file again.
>>>> I 've burnt that corrupted file on 2 DVDs already :)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the help, guys.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Armin Moradi <feng.shaun at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Aldo Foot <lunixer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM, E.H <expendablehumanoid at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hello,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >           I downloaded a Fedora 9 i386 DVD ISO file using utorrent ,
>>>>>> so i
>>>>>> > hear downloading through utorrent ensures the integrity of the file.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I burnt the image on a DVD at 4x speed and did the media check.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > All is fine.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > But there is another screen saying test for additional media or
>>>>>> something
>>>>>> > like that....  which has two options
>>>>>> > "TEST" and "CONTINUE"
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Continue gives an error
>>>>>> > and clicking on "TEST" gives a message saying checksum not found.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > what is wrong?
>>>>>> > The Documentation says the ISO is supposed to work...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you using bittorrent from a Windows PC?
>>>>>> There may be issues downloading ISO images larger than 2GB.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try the instructions here and see whether you can install directly
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> a fedora web site.
>>>>>>        http://fedorasolved.org/Members/opsec/fedora-netinstall
>>>>>> First download the Rescue CD, which smaller size that a full DVD ISO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alternatively, download the CD ISO images directly from here:
>>>>>>       http://fedora.inode.at/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/iso/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH, and enjoy using Fedora.
>>>>>> ~af
>>>>>>
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>>>>> Or you can just download the livecd and install from there, it will
>>>>> give you essentially the same thing, and you don't have to take your time to
>>>>> download a big iso file!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Armin
>>>>> feng.shaun at gmail.com
>>>>> "Good thoughts, Good words, Good deeds" Zarathustra
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>>> What I would do for installing Fedora on my computer:
>>> I would partition my HD and delete the partition so it leaves a free
>>> space (not formatted).
>>> The I would get a copy of the livecd and burn it (or put it on a USB
>>> disk) and boot from it.
>>> In the installation, I would choose guided partitioning.
>>>
>>> the guided partitioning makes it quite painless :)
>>>
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>>> Armin
>>> feng.shaun at gmail.com
>>> "Good thoughts, Good words, Good deeds" Zarathustra
>>>
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